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  • Oregon Wants to Register Medicaid Recipients to Vote. Will Biden Officials Allow It?

    July 11, 2023 |

    Bolts |

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    Response Location: United States, Oregon

    Oregon was the first state to implement automatic voter registration, which allows government agencies such as the DMV to share residents’ information with election officials. Roughly 94 percent of eligible residents are now registered to vote, and the state hopes to expand its approach to Medicaid recipients, but federal regulations may complicate that process.

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  • 'Go to the people': Street medicine teams bring health care to the unhoused

    July 11, 2023 |

    CalMatters |

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    Response Location: United States, California

    Street medicine teams bring medical care direct to people experiencing homelessness in encampments across the state. There are currently 25 teams operating in the state, providing medical care, food, hygiene products, empathy and support to those in need. Street medicine teams provide both emergency and routine primary care, establishing relationships and building trust with the patients they serve.

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  • India's Community Radio Brings Its Villages Crackling to Life

    July 11, 2023 |

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    Response Location: India

    The Mann Deshi Tarang Vahini community radio station aims to educate and broadcast important information, like weather alerts and COVID-19 resources, to rural areas in the country where access to information is often lacking. Listenership varies by region, but in some areas the radio station has over 100,000 listeners across more than 100 villages.

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  • Everyone's tired of homelessness in California. Are you willing to rent your extra room to help?

    July 11, 2023 |

    AfroLA |

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    Response Location: United States, Los Angeles, California

    The Homecoming Project helps provide housing for formerly incarcerated people by matching those in need with homeowners offering spare bedrooms. Since starting in 2018, The Homecoming Project has placed nearly 100 people in host homes and has helped those individuals connect with employment and long-term housing.

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  • Larchmere Homes: 30 new affordable lease-purchase homes near completion

    July 11, 2023 |

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    Response Location: United States, Cleveland, Ohio

    The CHN Housing Partners’ lease-purchase program builds affordable homes for low-income individuals to rent. Residents live and pay rent in the homes for 15 years while taking homeownership and financial counseling courses to equip them with the knowledge and skills necessary to become homeowners. Over the past 30 years, CHN has built more than 1,700 lease-purchase homes and more than 1,600 of them have been sold to owner-occupants.

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  • The latest cash-bail reform plan: Give everyone a lawyer

    July 10, 2023 |

    NewsNation |

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    Response Location: United States, Allegheny, Pennsylvania

    In 2017, a Pennsylvania county court system began to expand its offerings of free legal support, and now in 2023 the county provides defendants with public defenders at all arraignments 9am to midnight. In the first two years of its more-limited services, a study proved defendants with lawyers were more likely to be released without cash bail. Also, chances that a defendant would be in jail three days after their hearing dropped. Research also showed, however, increases in some costs and one type of crime.

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  • In the Shadowy World of Animal Poaching, There's a New Cop in Town

    July 10, 2023 |

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    Response Location: India, Kerala

    HAWK, or Hostile Activity Watch Kernel, is a digital intelligence gathering system for wildlife crime in India. Field staff use HAWK’s app to enter data when they encounter a crime, which generates the documents an officer needs to submit in court. Since HAWK’s 2020 rollout, the criminal investigation process has been streamlined, resulting in fewer errors, quicker processing times, and more transparency. Building off its success, HAWK is now being introduced to more Indian states.

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  • More cities are offering no-strings-attached cash to residents. Here's what Philly can learn.

    July 10, 2023 |

    The Philadelphia Inquirer (Philadelphia Media Network) |

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    Response Location: United States, Durham, North Carolina

    Funded by a philanthropic donation and funds raised by the city, a guaranteed income program in Durham, North Carolina, provided people who were formerly incarcerated with a monthly stipend of $600. The no-strings-attached payments are meant to decrease recidivism by helping recipients meet their needs.

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  • The new approach to ending FGM that's showing promise in Kenya

    July 10, 2023 |

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    Response Location: Kenya, Nairobi

    The Girl Generation (TGG) practices intergenerational healing and provides trauma-informed support to women who have survived female genital mutilation (FGM). TGG aims for FGM to be recognized as a form of sexual violence rather than a cultural practice and does so by hosting mother-daughter forums for generations to cope and heal from their traumas together. TGG estimates they’ve reached about 300 women and girls so far, with hopes to expand the group to other communities.

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  • Oakland's MACRO has responded to thousands of calls. Very few were sent over by the police

    July 10, 2023 |

    The Oaklandside |

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    Response Location: United States, Oakland, California

    When concern arose that the police was not the appropriate department to respond to all non-violent, non-emergency calls, the Mobile Assistance Community Responders of Oakland program was created to do so. The program’s responders are civilian workers who check on community-member reports of things like people sleeping in public, public indecency and reported behavioral issues.

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